A JURY trying four men, including one from Birmingham, over the murder of a woman police officer following a bungled armed robbery was today considering its verdict.

A JURY trying four men, including one from Birmingham, over the murder of a woman police officer following a bungled armed robbery was today considering its verdict.

PC Sharon Beshenivsky was killed and PC Teresa Milburn seriously injured when they were shot outside the premises of the Universal Express travel agency in Bradford city centre on November 18 last year.

Mr Justice Andrew Smith told the jury of six women and five men that they must take as much time as they needed as they began their deliberations in the 10th week of the trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

The judge said: "You must take as long as you need in this case, there is no pressure of time."

He urged them to try to reach unanimous verdicts.

Members of the jury were given four sets of questions, one relating to each defendant, to consider during their deliberations.

The court heard that the two officers were the first to respond to a silent panic alarm which had been activated by staff at the travel agent's.

As they arrived, 38-year-old PC Beshenivsky was hit in the chest at close range by a round from a handgun and her 37-year-old colleague, PC Milburn, was also gunned down in the street.

Despite seeing her colleague's head "flop" to the side and coughing up blood herself, PC Milburn managed to send a Code Zero alert over her police radio indicating an officer had been shot.

The jury heard that 20-year-old Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, of Whitmore Road, Small Heath, was one of three men who posed as customers inside the premises during the raid while four others were waiting in nearby streets.

The gang, some of whom had partied on champagne and vodka in a brothel the previous evening, had hoped to take up to #100,000 in the raid, but escaped, firing a shot back towards the shop, with little more than #5,000.

Jamma admits robbery and two firearms offences, but denies murder and two further firearms offences.